Charles Fort Quotes

All magic is 'Here’s a quarter, now it’s gone. You’re a jerk. Now it’s back. You’re an idiot. Show’s over.'

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.

If you do sleight of hand without trying to cheat someone, that's what magic is.

There is no magic. There are only magicians.

Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

I wish what I do was all real. Some of it's real, some of it's an illusion and I try to blur the line between both, but unfortunately I've got to be honest with you. Taking a $1 bill and turning it into a $100 - unfortunately it's not real.

But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.

Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.

I love magic. Like, 'pull a scarf out of your fake thumb' magic. I have a legit bag of 'Magic Stuff' in my garage.

If you do magic, it's the quickest most fraudulent route to impressing people.

Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.

Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.

I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.

I realised how much misdirection is in stunt co-coordinating. It's similar to magic, the tricks we use to make people think the stunt is real. I also have a lifelong fascination with gambling cheats. I'm not one, but I do have a fascination with it.

In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things.

I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdini, because he was a magician who had a magic show, but he was also an escape artist, and they kind of, over time, blended together. They both kind of enhance each other, I think.

Great liars are also great magicians.

Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn't want you to look at my right hand then I don't look at it.